COUNTY CENTRES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 88, 24 January 1938, Page 8

COUNTY CENTRES

(From Our Own Correspondent*.) MOUNT SOMERS. PRESENTATION TO TEACHER. A large and representative gathering of residents met in the Memorial Hall on Friday evening to bid farewell to Miss E. T. Scott, who has been assistant teacher at the Mount Somers School for over eight years, and who has been appointed to the Oaro School, North Canterbury. The function took the form of a dance, music being supplied by Mrs L. M. Goodrich, Mrs L. F. Wood, Miss T. Morgan and Messrs T. Morgan, G. L. Hood and W. Morgan. Mr W. Morgan : was M.C. Novelty dances were given by Miss Gundry (Staveley).

Mr T. Kerr (chairman of the school committee), who presided, made fitting reference to the many activities Miss Scott had been associated with during her stay at Mt. Somers, and on behalf of the residents presented her with a sum of money with which to purchase a . gift as a memento of her stay at Mt. Somers and the esteem in which she was held.

Others who spoke in glowing terms of Miss Scott’s work in many spheres and made presentations on behalf of their respective organisations were Mrs A. R. Beckley (Women’s Institute), Miss J. Stevenson (drama circle), Mrs L. M. Goodrich (folk dancing circle), Mr G. L. Hood (tennis club), Mrs L. Tinker (ladies’ hockey club). • <t Change in the Weather. After nearly a fortnight’s fine summer weather, a cold southerly change set ip on Saturday evening, when a steady rain began. It continued throughout yesterday, 144 points being recorded yesterday and another 35 ..points this mrning. A liberal coating of snow fell on the nearby hills. The .fine and warmer weather of the past •‘fortnight has hastened the ripening of cereal crops, which mostly give promise iof fair yields. Several shearing sheds cut out last week, but others are still unfinished.